Caring for Fortune Green

Why try to explain miracles to our kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

Robert Brault

When I go in my garden with a spade and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gardens are not made by singing “Oh how beautiful” and sitting in the shade.Rudyard Kipling

​The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

Vita Sackville-West

To forget how to dig the earthand to tend the soilis to forget ourselves.Mahatma Gandhi

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. Francis Bacon

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.Plutarch

In the end, there is really nothing more important than taking care of the earthand letting it take care of you.Charles Scott

The best place to seek God is in a garden.You can dig for him there.George Bernard Shaw

It will never rain roses: when we want to havemore roses we must plant more trees.George Eliot